I'm a bit stunned that typing that sentence, hitting that period at the end of it, rendered my fingers motionless. It wasn’t the end of the sentence that did it. Mixed emotions did, emotions I didn't realize I had until that moment.

As many of you know, the making of the sex book has been a long and trying process. I started the book in December 2004. For the next year and a half, I researched, reported, wrote, rewrote, rewrote, and rewrote the book’s proposal. The research continued through 2007. During those years, I traveled from Texas to New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey to California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico to Florida, Jama